In Japan, for the first time since 2022, a death sentence was executed-on June 27, 30-year-old Takahiro Siraishshi, better known as a "Twitter murderer", was executed. He has become one of the most severe serial murderers in the modern history of the country, shocking Japanese society with its crimes.
Siraish in 2017 killed nine people, mostly young women aged 15 to 26. He searched for his victims on social networks, in particular on Twitter, where under fictional names he was in touch with vulnerable users who hinted at suicidal intentions. The Siraish more offered them "help" - actually invited to themselves, after which he choked, dismembered the bodies and kept them in his apartment near Tokyo.
In 2020, the court found him guilty of serial murder and sentenced him to death because of hanging. The lawyers tried to mitigate the punishment, claiming that Siraish was "acted with the consent of the victims", but the court rejected this version as unacceptable.
Japanese Justice Minister Kaisuke Suzuki confirmed the execution of the sentence, stating that the decision had been made after a "thorough and weighted consideration".
This is the first use of death in Japan since 2022. At that time, Tomohiro Cato was executed - a perpetrator in a mass attack in the Tokyo district of Akihabara in 2008, which resulted in seven people, and ten more were injured.
In Japan, deaths are rare, but usually cause resonance - both in society and internationally, due to the maintenance of death as a form of punishment.
